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Hi Matteo, Yes, I agree that it isn't a solution for all cases, but it is convenient for some use-cases. In my case I often have an animation which is a "small" set of plots, say 20-30, in which case this is a good solution. For a two minutes movie it is of course pretty much useless. I wasn't aware that \movie would work in Okular, thanks for the tip! I'll perhaps try that next time. My problem is usually that I have to give the presentation on a Windows machine which usually is lacking codecs. Finally, I absolutely agree that knowledge on how to best do animations/movies with latex/beamer/prosper is needed for a large part of us Linux guys! :) Cheers, Yngve On Tuesday 03 May 2011 14.27.50 Matteo Semplice wrote: > I had troubles with that in past, so I was looking for alternatives... > > Anyway you are (partially) right. > Including .mpg or .mp4 with \movie from the multimedia package produces > a PDF file that okular can play back correctly. > > acroread (9.4.2 from debian-multimedia) however cannot handle it, > complaining that "it is not a supported file type. Would you like to > choose a replacement file?" > > So it's solved for me since I can use okular, but I guess we could all > benefit from knowledge of what file formats acroread can play back. > > Matteo > > On 03/05/2011 13:33, James U wrote: > > I've used the multimedia package in latex and the videos were viewable > > using okular and acrobat. > > > > James > > On Tuesday, May 03, 2011 07:20:50 AM Matteo Semplice wrote: > > > >> It does, up to a point... In the sense that in this way you give up > >> compression granted by video files and get huge PDFs by storing all > >> frames individually, even if the frames do not differ much. > >> > >> Part of the question was: googling seems to indicate that embedded > >> > > movie > > > >> playback works using acrobat reader under other OSs (plural!) and I > >> > > was > > > >> wondering wether it could be made to work under linux as well. > >> > >> Matteo > >> > >> On 29/04/2011 08:12, Yngve Inntjore Levinsen wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Matteo, > >>> > >>> My favourite way to show embedded movies is animategraphics, which > >>> > > is > > > >>> independent of codecs etc. being installed. It does only work with > >>> acrobat though to my knowledge. > >>> > >>> What you need then is a numbered series of png's or similar, and you > >>> > > then > > > >>> use a command like: > >>> > >>> \usepackage{animate} > >>> ... > >>> \animategraphics[width=0.7\textwidth,controls]{2} > >>> > > {./figures/ellipse/elan} > > > >>> {19}{57} > >>> > >>> > >>> In this example it is showing two frames every second, from figure > >>> > > number > > > >>> 19 to 57. The pngs were called elan19.png, elan20.png and so forth. > >>> > >>> Hope this helps. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Yngve > >>> > >>> On Thursday 28 April 2011 22.28:00 Matteo Semplice wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi everybody, > >>>> > >>>> this must be a sort of "evergreen" question, but browsing > >>>> > > around > > > >>>> never quite gets me the definitive answer... > >>>> > >>>> So, if a PDF file (say generated with latex-beamer) links to a movie, > >>>> for example as explained previously on this list > >>>> <http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2007/05/msg00006.html>, > >>>> > > xpdf and > > > >>>> acrobat show the movie in a separate window. This is better than > >>>> nothing, but not ideal during a presentation. > >>>> > >>>> So, is there a program/library to show a PDF file with embedded > >>>> > > movies? > > > >>>> It should show correctly at least one of the examples in the movie15 > >>>> manual > >>>> > >>>> > > <http://ctan.mackichan.com/macros/latex/contrib/movie15/doc/movie15.pdf> > > > >>>> or this one with embedded mp4 > >>>> > >>>> > > <http://pages.uoregon.edu/noeckel/computernotes/movieExample/movie.pdf> > > > >>>> or this other one with embedded swf > >>>> > >>>> > > <http://pages.uoregon.edu/noeckel/computernotes/movieExample/movie- > > swf.p > > > >>>> df>. > >>>> > >>>> (For the record, the beamer code for the last 2 examples are to be > >>>> > > found > > > >>>> at http://pages.uoregon.edu/noeckel/PDFmovie.html) > >>>> > >>>> If I open one of the above files with acroread, I get an error window > >>>> "Multimedia Player Finder" which asks me to download a plugin for > >>>> acroread and if I agree I get the web page > >>>> http://www.adobe.com/special/acrobat/nomediaplayer.html which > >>>> > > tells me > > > >>>> that there are no plugins available for my system. > >>>> > >>>> Is it possible to see such PDF files in Debian? Does anybody have an > >>>> hint? > >>>> > >>>> Best regards, > >>>> > >>>> Matteo Semplice > >>>> > > > > > > > |